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Featured 19. January 2023.19. January 2023.

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Susan Sontag – “ Miss Librarian”

http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/ What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” ~ Susan Sontag Most of the qualities of Sontag’sContinue readingSusan Sontag – “ Miss Librarian”

Featured 18. November 2022.18. November 2022.

Philosophy, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Democracy,, WorldlyMusings

Is Radical Evil Banal?

“Man is cruelest animal” – Friedrich Nietzsche Hannah Arendt’s five articles on the trial 1961 of Adolf Eichmann by the state of Israel appeared in The New Yorker in February and March 1963, then shortlyContinue readingIs Radical Evil Banal?

Featured 11. November 2022.11. November 2022.

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Two Pariahs

Child Hannah’ and lifelong friendship with Jaspers “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca The friendship forContinue readingTwo Pariahs

Featured 4. November 2022.4. November 2022.

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LOVE TRIANGLE

Hannah Arendt and Martin& Elfriede Heidegger “Fearlessness is what love seeks… Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of theContinue readingLOVE TRIANGLE

Featured 3. November 2022.14. November 2022.

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Love Triangle

Featured 31. October 2022.1. November 2022.

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Taj Mahal Monument – Vanity or Love

During the 16th century, the Mughals united India by conquering it. Mughal is a Persian word meaning the descendants of Genghis Khan. The first Mughal ruler, Babur, came from Persia and wasContinue readingTaj Mahal Monument – Vanity or Love

Featured 29. October 2022.30. October 2022.

Philosophy, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, Democracy,, WorldlyMusings

The Use and Abuse of Concepts

There is “a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.” –Hannah Arendt Our image of other peoples, or of ourselves, reflects the history we are taught as children. The history marksContinue readingThe Use and Abuse of Concepts

Featured 22. October 2022.22. October 2022.

Art, Golden Age, Vanity,Glory,, Philosophy, Rembrandt, Steen,, Rembrandt, Steen, Dutch, Spinoza, Amsterdam,, Travelogue, WorldlyMusings

Visit to Rijks Musem

What is happiness…? Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; and we do not delight in it because we conquer our passions, but because weContinue readingVisit to Rijks Musem

Featured 7. October 2022.4. November 2022.

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Signs by the Road…

“If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.” ― Ivo Andric Last year in the autumn it seemed that staying in Belgrade was theContinue readingSigns by the Road…

30. September 2022.7. October 2022.

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The logic of Suicide either the question of Hemingway’s Life and Death

Any ethics make no sense of everything, or this is what it means and has nothing else to say: not to be unworthy of what happens to us. Gilles Deleuze,Continue readingThe logic of Suicide either the question of Hemingway’s Life and Death